Travel Health Resources

External Links For Travel Medicine Information

Visit these travel health links for further Information regarding travel health issues or related topics:

World Health Map:

• World Health Map

Travel Health Kit:

•          Travel Health Kits– Public Health Agency of Canada
•         “How to assemble the Perfect First Aid Kit“- International Association for Medical Assitance to Travellers
•          “Her First Aid Travel Kit”

Travel Health Links:

• Travel Medicine Program – Public Health Agency of Canada
• Travel Health Advisories – Public Health Agency of Canada
• National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)
• Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT)
• Travelling abroad- Government of Canada

International Travel and Health Medicine Links:

• World Heath Organization
• International Society of Travel Medicine
• Center for Infectious Disease
• BC Center for Disease Control
• Service Canada: Travelling Abroad

Government of Canada: 

• Registration of Canadians Abroad

Altitude Sickness:

• Center for Disease Control 
•         Travel At High Altitude MEDEX Booklet

Information For The Student Traveller:

• Advice for Safe and Healthy Travel for Students– CDC
• Uvic Student Health Services

Cruise Ship Travellers:

• Cruise Ship Inspection Program

Medical Assistance:

• International Association for Medical Assistance to Travellers
• Request Emergency Assistance
• Flying Doctors of Africa:  membership for evacuation services in case of a medical emergency in East Africa

• Emergency Contact Card (pdf)

Children and Immunizations:

• BC Health Guide: BC Health File # 41d
• Immunization Get The Facts: Canadian Coalation for Immunization Awareness
•         Travelling with Children: Dr. Neumann’s Kid Travel Doctor

Travelling with Diabetes:

• Travel Tips: Canadian Diabetes Association
• Medic Alert Identification

The Pregnant Traveler:

• BC Health Guide
• Public Heath Agency of Canada

Other Travel Health Clinics and Resources:

• Travel Health Online Website
• The Travel Clinic – Dr Mark Wise
• Well Travelled Clinics | Travel Vaccination Specialists: Our travel clinic is part of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and specialist advice, inoculations, holiday injections and overall travel health.
•           Travel Wise:  Holiday and Vacation Guides including World Travel and International Tourism information

Victoria Travel Agency:

For specific concerns please visit the following sites for detailed information. We advise you to read over these files and come to your appointment prepared with your questions.

• Dukoral for Travellers: BC Health File # 41k
• Travellers Diarrhea: BC Health File # 41e
• Hepatitis A: BC Health File #33

             www.bccdc.ca/imm-vac/VaccinesBC/ImmsVaccineHepA.htm

• Hepatitis B :BC Health File #25a

• Japanese Encephalitis: BC Health File # 41h

             www.bccdc.ca/dis-cond/a-z/_j/JapaneseBEncephalitis/overview/Japanese+Encephalitis.htm

• Malaria: BC Health File #41f
• Measles, Mumps, Rubella: BC Health File # 14a
• Meningococcal C Infection: Conjugate Vaccine BC Health File # 23a

• Oral Rehydration Solutions

             www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/tmp-pmv/info/oral-eng.php

• Polio: BC Health File # 13

             www.bccdc.ca/imm-vac/VaccinesBC/PolioVaccine.htm

• Rabies:  BC Health File # 07
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases and the Traveller: BC Health File
• Typhoid: BC Health File # 41j

• Yellow Fever: BC Health File #41i

   

•          Zika Virus: Canada.ca